Multinational UK-based cinema chain Vue makes a case for the healthy escape from connected entertainment in this spot from RSA Films’ Jake Scott with a full order of supporting VFX from the crew at London’s Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
International design agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (known for high-profile clients like Dunkin’, Budweiser, and Burger King) apply their many talents to a smaller and more elegant project for London luxury perfume brand Miller Harris. [Watch]
Creative director Jarratt Moody and the oddfellows design and animation crew wrap this explainer for online wholesale marketplace Faire in a soft, minimal, and ultimately welcoming illustration style. [Watch]
Darcy Prendergast, founder/director at prodco Oh Yeah Wow in the Melbourne, Australia says he made “Tomorrow’s On Fire” as a way of trying to process the devastating bushfire crisis currently ravaging his country. [Watch]
Creative director Karin Fong follows stylistically diverse work for “Jack Ryan” on Amazon and “Tell Me a Story” on CBS All Access with these ominous/intriguing titles for the Apple TV+ series “See” which finds humans in a future without their sense of sight. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of their multi-technique work for Gogoro scooters, Taipei studio MixCode zags style-wise to deliver a jolt of hand-drawn dynamics highlighting the benefits of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile game experience. [Watch]
A sweet and quirky animated short about friendship and confronting your anger issues sounds like the perfect way to kick-off what’s looking to be a very unsettling year on many fronts. [Watch]
Agile Films director Simon Willows and the London prodco’s animation/VFX sibling Agile Studios help position Audible as the calmer alternative to mindless scrolling in this kinetic :30 thru London agency Fold7. [Watch]
After tackling screen zombies and consumerism, London artist/animator Steve Cutts turns his talents for rendering modern dilemmas in hyper-detail toward human-induced apocalypse in this devastating music video for Melbourne musician Wantaways. [Watch]
Director Fx Goby and the Nexus crew in London mark the end of production for the VW Beetle with an emotional multi-generation epic rotoscoped by hand and starring Ferdinand Porsche’s original 1938 design. [Watch]
The Ambassadors’ crew in Amsterdam handled the character design, VFX, post, audio and music in this latest heartwarmer for Staatsloterij, the Netherlands’ largest lottery known for its life-changing New Year’s Eve jackpots. [Watch]
The popularity of what we might call CG magic realism continued to expand in 2019 as more creators and clients embraced the power of hyper-real 3D to transport viewers to surreal and abstract worlds with spellbinding clarity. [Watch]
The creative challenge and promise of the self-imposed brief make the short film a treasured opportunity for both professionals taking a break from client work and students trying to launch careers with the perfect graduation project. [Watch]
If you wade deep enough into the mind-numbing tide of the music video genre, you will eventually find passionate, talented, and cynicism-free people producing innovative films for interesting musicians, cool events, and good causes. [Watch]